Brotherhood vs Confederacy - What's the difference?
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The state of being brothers or a brother.
An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
Brotherhood is a related term of confederacy.
As a noun brotherhood
is the state of being brothers or a brother.As a proper noun confederacy is
(historical) the informal name for the , the collection of american states that seceded from the united states in 1861, and fought against the union in the american civil war.brotherhood
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- A brotherhood of venerable trees. - .